Fraud is pretty rampant across the corporate / academic world, and I imagine relatively few people actually pay any price for cheating, falsifying data, etc. I

Fraud is pretty rampant across the corporate / academic world, and I imagine relatively few people actually pay any price for cheating, falsifying data, etc. I'd guess over 95% of academic fraudsters get away with it at some level, as long as they're not incredibly blatant about it. The few cases you see in the media are generally so flagrant that it's hard to understand how they got away with it for as long as they did. It's probably safe to assume that any research group (or business outfit), public or private, that doesn't have active fraud-detection and fraud-prevention policies in place is engaging in fraudulent activity of some sort.